Atletico Madrid fullback Samuel Lino is happy for Inter Milan to be regarded as favourites in their Champions League tie.

Inter host the first-leg of their round 16 tie tomorrow.

Lino told Marca: "Let that role of favourites remain for them, we are thinking about working and playing a good game. They are a good team, they reached the Champions League final last season, they are the Italian champions and it is going to be a great challenge.

"Every game is every game. We played great games against Madrid, but each one is different and now we have to think about the other great games we have this season.

"The last hope is the one that dies. In the Cup we lost at home against Bilbao, but everything is open; It is difficult in the League, but we are going to try to get the best possible position and against Inter we are going to start, they are the first games now and we are going to start 0-0. We are going to try to do our best to leave Italy with a good result.

"I hope things continue to go well because the most important thing now is to do things well, because there are no more opportunities. In the group stage we had six games, but now we cannot fail, we cannot make mistakes and we have to give everything to do well and pass the tie."